Dr Mohammad Aslam Khan has been an educator and a Commonwealth Scholar, who prepared the State of Environment Reports in Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). After retiring as Chief of the Environment Section from UN-ESCAP, he served as Foreign Professor Higher Education Commission at the University of Peshawar, where he had established the first Department of Environmental Studies and served as its founder Chairman. During the assignment as Foreign Professor, he initiated the establishment of the Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management as the first Centre of Excellence in the country. The author has produced over hundred publications and reports including Environment and Climate Change Outlook of Pakistan for the United Nations Environment Program and Environmental Atlas of Pakistan for the Government of Pakistan. Along with his extensive post-graduate teaching and research experience, the author has also organized Ministerial Conferences, Intergovernmental Meetings   including negotiation meetings on climate change and other environmental issues.

Chapter 1-Risks, Resilience and Sustainable Development.- Chapter 2-Cities Sustainability in a Risk Prone World.- Chapter 3-Urban Mega Risks: Monitoring, Management and Sustainability (Remote Sensing and GIS Solutions).- Chapter 4-Mega Risks and Digital Solutions for Sustainability.- Chapter 5-Mega Risks, Urban Economies and Sustainability: Making Cities Economically Resilient.- Chapter 6-Mega Risks, Urban Energy Use and Sustainable Development.- Chapter 7-Mega Risks, Urban Health and Sustainability.- Chapter 8-Mega Risks, Education, Knowledge and Sustainability.- Chapter 9-Mega Risks, Social Protection and Sustainability.- Chapter 10-Mega Risks, Urban Governance and Sustainability.- Chapter 11-Vision of a Sustainable and Resilient City.